Chapter 3 second quarter

※※※ The mind cannot be non-judgmental, if you force it to be non-judgmental then a blockage will be created in your intellect and your mind will not function perfectly. To be nonjudgmental is not something that comes from the realm of the mind.Only a transcendent man can be nonjudgmental, otherwise what appears to you to be a fact, a sound description, is only an appearance. Anything that the mind decides or describes is tainted by its conditioning or its prejudices, and that is what makes it judgmental. For example, if you see a thief, the fact that he steals is no problem, so you make a statement about the thief.Of course, stealing is not good, so when you call someone a thief, your mind says:

"You are justified and your statements are true." But why is a thief bad?And what is that bad?Why was he forced to steal?That act of stealing is a single act, on the basis of which you make a judgment about your whole being, you call him a thief, who also does many other things, not just stealing. He may be a good painter, he may be a good carpenter, he may be a good singer, or a good dancer, there may be a thousand and one qualities in that person, the whole People are too big, and stealing is no more than a single act. You can't describe his whole person on the basis of a single act, you don't even know that act, you don't even know the circumstances under which it happened, maybe in that case, you would steal as well; Perhaps in that case, stealing is not bad, because each act is related to its situation.

If you look around the world and you see the conditioning of different kinds of people and their ideas of what is good or bad or what is right and wrong, you will be able to understand for the first time that your mind is also part of the human mind and that it does not represent any truth, It just represents a certain part. Through this mind, whatever you see is based on judgment. ※※※ Existence is one, and its manifestations are thousands and billions, but the spirit expressed is the same.It is the same divinity, but with an infinite variety of creations. ※※※ Money is a very strange thing.

If you don't have money, it's simple, you just don't have money, so there's no complexity; but if you have it, it's bound to create complexity. One of the biggest difficulties that money creates is that you never know that you are worth it, or that your money is worth it, because it's hard to figure it out, so some people would rather not have money, at least that way life will Simpler. Something like money, which could have given you a great deal of joy, turns into great misery, but not because of your money, but because of your mind. Money is useful, having money is not a sin, no need to feel guilty.

※※※ That's how the mind is generating misery. You have money, you can enjoy it.But if someone loves you, don't bring it up because you're putting that person in a really bad situation: if he says he loves you, you won't believe him, and if he says he loves your money , then you will trust him, but if he loves your money, then the whole love affair is over.Deep down you will continue to doubt that he loves your money, not you. But there's nothing wrong with that: the money is yours, just as your nose is yours, your eyes are yours, your hair is yours, and this person loves you all.Money is part of you too, don't separate it, then there will be no problem.

Try to live a life with as few complications as possible, as few problems as possible-- It's up to you to decide. ※※※ Knowing the whole world is nothing compared to knowing the inner mysteries of your own life. ※※※ The notion of comparison is completely false. Every individual is unique because no one else is like him, if all individuals were alike then comparison would be right, but in fact they are not alike, even twins are not exactly alike, it is hard to find another person just right Similar to you, so we are comparing unique people, which will create difficulties. ※※※ One of the most difficult things in life, but also one of the most basic, is not to divide life into beautiful things and stupid things, not at all, they are all part of the same whole.

It just needs a little sense of humor.For me, a sense of humor is very important if a person is to be whole. What's wrong with something small and something stupid?Why can't you smile at them, why can't you enjoy them?You are constantly judging what is right and what is wrong.You've been sitting in a judgment seat, and that makes you serious. Then the flowers become beautiful, but what about the thorns?They are all part of the flower's existence.Flowers cannot exist without thorns, because thorns are protective, they have a function, a purpose, a meaning. But you divide it, then the flower becomes beautiful and the thorn becomes ugly.But in the tree itself, the sap that flows into the flowers is the same as that that flows into the thorns.In the being of the tree there is no division, and there is no judgment.Flowers are not loved more, thorns are not endured, both are fully accepted.

In our own lives, we should act like this. There are little things which, if you judge, will look stupid, like idiots, but that is because of your judgment, otherwise they are also fulfilling something important. ※※※ The whole function of the mind is to continue to divide, and the function of the heart is to see the connecting link.About this the mind is completely ignorant. The mind cannot understand what is beyond words, it can only understand what is linguistically and logically correct, it has no concern for existence, it has no concern for life, it has no concern for truth.The mind itself is a fiction.

You can live without the mind, but you cannot live without the heart. The deeper you live, the more your heart gets involved. ※※※ Life is flowing, it is a river, it is a constant flow. People think of themselves as static.Only things are static, only death is constant, life is always changing.The more life there is the more change, and when you have a very rich life then every moment there is a great change. ※※※ No one is better, no one is inferior, no one is equal, everyone is unique. Equality is a mistake in psychology. It is impossible for everyone to be Einstein, and it is impossible for everyone to be Tagore, but that does not mean that Tagore is superior, because you cannot be him.Tagore can't be you either.

My whole point is this: Every human being is a unique presence, so we have to destroy the whole concept of superiority and inferiority, equality and inequality, and replace it with a new idea of ​​"uniqueness". Everyone is unique. Just look lovingly and you will be able to see that each individual has something that the others do not. ※※※ Just do whatever is pleasant - pleasant to you and pleasant to your surroundings, just do something that brings you to sing and creates a rhythm of celebration around you . This kind of life I call religious life. It has no principles, it has no norms, it has no laws, it has only one single approach, and that is: live intelligently.

※※※ Obedience is easy, disobedience requires some higher intelligence.Any idiot can obey, and in fact only an idiot can obey. A wise man must ask, "Why? Why am I doing this? I don't want to get involved in it unless I know its reasons and consequences." In this way, he becomes responsible. ※※※ It is absolutely impossible for a saint to become a hooligan, but a hooligan can become a saint. ※※※ Man has not yet learned to know the beauty of "aloneness." He's always longing for some relationship, he's always longing to be with someone -- with a friend, with a father, with a wife, with a husband, with a child...always with someone . He created society, he created clubs -- the Lions, the Rotary.He created parties—political parties, or parties formed by a certain ideology.He has created all kinds of religions and churches, and the basic need of all of them is some way to forget that you are alone.Being united with a lot of people, you are trying to forget that in the dark you will remember that you were born alone, you will die alone, and whatever you do, you will be alone. is to live alone. Aloneness is something so important to your being that there is no way to avoid it. ※※※ Every effort directed at avoiding individuality has failed in the past, and it will fail in the future, because it violates the fundamentals of life.What is required is not something in which you can forget your aloneness, what is required is that you become aware of your aloneness -- that is a fact. It is very beautiful to experience it, to feel it, because it is your freedom to be free from the crowd, from other people.Freedom from the fear of being alone is our freedom.Just the word "lonely" immediately makes us feel like saying it is a trauma that needs something to fill it; like a void, sentimental, that needs something to fill it . The word "alone" has no connotations of "trauma" and "a void that needs to be filled" in it.Alone just means whole.You are whole and don't need anyone else to complete you. So try to find your innermost center where you are always alone, you are always alone.In life, in death, wherever you are, you are alone, but it is so full, it is not empty, it is so full, so complete, and overflowing with all the sap of life, overflowing with all The beauty and the blessing of being, once you have tasted your aloneness, the pain inside will disappear and then there will be a new rhythm that is very sweet, very peaceful, very joyful, very blissful. That does not mean that a man who is in his own "single" center, who is complete in himself, cannot make friends, in fact, only he can, because then making friends is no longer A need, it's just a sharing.He has a lot, so he can share. ※※※ We are all part of the same being, whoever you hurt, you hurt yourself in the long run, maybe you don't know it now, but one day, when you become more aware, you will say : "My God! I did this hurt on myself." You hurt someone else and you thought it wasn't you. No one is different, the whole of existence is one, the unity of one universe, and non-violence will emerge from this understanding. ※※※ When you are angry, you are condemning yourself.You are burning, you are destroying your heart and its higher qualities, you are full of hate. ※※※ If man is in tune with the universe, he is full, if he is not in tune with the universe, then he is empty, utterly empty, and from that emptiness arises greed. Greed is to fill it, to fill it with money, house, furniture, friends, lovers, whatever, because you cannot live with emptiness, that is scary, that is a devilish life.If you are empty, if there is nothing in you, then it is impossible for you to live. There are only two ways to make you feel that there is much in you, or that you are in tune with the universe, then you are filled with the whole, with all the flowers and all the stars, and that is the real satisfaction. But if you haven't done it -- and there are billions of people who haven't -- then the only way left is to fill yourself up with whatever rubbish you have. Greed simply means that you feel a deep void and you want to fill it with anything possible, whatever it is. Once you realize this, you are out of greed, you have entered into a deep communion with the whole, so the inner emptiness disappears. ※※※ The whole of human history has been glorifying poverty, and to equate poverty with spirituality is utter nonsense. Spirituality is the greatest richness that can happen to a man, it includes all other riches, it is not against any other riches, but it is against every kind of poverty. On the one hand, people will respect poverty, and on the other hand, they will say: "Serving the poor." That's weird!If being poor is such a spiritual thing, then the most spiritual thing is to make every rich person poor.Help a rich man to become poor so that he can become spiritual, why help those who are poor?Do you want to destroy their spirituality? Living in abundance is the only spiritual thing in the world.